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The Daily Motivation

How BODY LANGUAGE Can Help You Master CONFIDENCE | Amy Cuddy

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1198   In this enlightening episode, Amy delves into the power of body language and its profound impact on confidence. With her extensive research and expertise, Amy explains how certain postures and gestures can influence our mindset and physiological responses, ultimately boosting our self-assurance.   Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:08.7

I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy.

0:12.5

And if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in

0:17.3

your life and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make

0:22.1

it easier. You want to make it flow. You want to feel abundant. Then make sure to go to make

0:26.5

moneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is going to help you

0:34.1

transform your relationship with money, this moment moving forward.

0:38.6

We have some big guests and content coming up.

0:42.7

Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode of The Daily Motivation Show.

0:49.4

Were you able to implement and integrate some of your own practices and teachings

0:53.8

when you were getting,

0:55.2

whether it be criticism or bullying or, you know, any of the stuff you were facing, were you

0:58.5

able to actually integrate the body language for yourself?

1:02.2

I mean, for me, the thing that works the best for me is breathing.

1:05.1

The relaxation response that's triggered by certain breathing patterns is incredibly effective

1:10.4

for me. So basically, it sends your nervous system into this rest and digest state, which is the opposite of fight, fleer, faint. And so the one that I like best is called four, seven, eight breathing. So basically for four counts, you inhale. For seven, you hold your breath, and for eight you exhale. Okay. So I'm going to count and you do it.

1:28.3

One, two, three, four.

1:31.3

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

1:41.3

And you repeat that a few times?

1:43.3

Three times. Like, one time you feel it. It will put me to sleep at night. You know, if I'm relaxed, it makes me sleepy. But if I'm anxious, it calms me down. There's just so much research on the relaxation response in breathing. What I think is interesting about it is that that kind of breathing is expansive just like what I talk about

2:01.9

expansive posture that's expansive you're breathing deeply and slowly you're taking up more temporal

2:07.4

space you're expanding your you know like your physical body more and when we expand we tend to

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